Farms and Facilities
The TRF herd includes horses at 26 farms in 13 states. In addition to 2 farms staffed by TRF employees, 8 farms are located at state correctional facilities where inmates participate in a vocational training program in equine care and stable managment. A number of our retirees also live at private farms whose owners receive a modest stipend to care for our long-term retirees.
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Across the lush, rolling, green hills of Putnam County, Indiana, gallop a herd of beautiful, thoroughbred, race horses. In June 2007, the Putnamville Correctional Facility received its’ first six horses from Kentucky marking the beginning of the first Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Program in the State of Indiana.
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Wallkill is where it all began. In 1984, a gelding named Promised Road walked off a van and on to the grounds of the Wallkill Correctional Facility in upstate, New York, the first horse ever under the care of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. The TRF's dream of providing homes for retired race horses who may otherwise be subject to abuse or slaughter was a reality.
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Few prisons in the country were a better fit for a TRF program than the Wateree River Correctional Facility in Rembert, South Carolina. The facility has plenty of land, is in the middle of horse country and already had several agricultural and vocational programs in place for the inmates. When then warden John Carmichael read a New York Times story about the TRF and the success the organization has had at its other prison program, he knew Wateree had to have one, too.
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